Ian Fleming Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.”
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“You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.”
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“Everyone has the revolver of resignation in his pocket.”
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“Bond didn't defend the practice. He simply maintained that the more effort and ingenuity you put into gambling, the more you took out.”
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“It's no good protecting people or even looking after them past a certain point. One can't grasp more than a piece of anyone. Most of the rest can only be protected by themselves and the remainder by hired specialists and doctors and dentists and professional protectors.”
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“He was a secret agent, and still alive thanks to his exact attention to the detail of his profession.”
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“Love of life is born of the awareness of death, of the dread of it.”
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“History is moving pretty quickly these days, and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.”
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“Loneliness becomes a lover, solitude a darling sin.”
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“Bond reflected that good Americans were fine people and that most of them seemed to come from Texas.”
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“Smoking I find the most ridiculous of all the varieties of human behavior and practically the only one that is entirely against nature. Can you imagine a cow or any animal taking a mouthful of smoldering straw then breathing in the smoke and blowing it out through its nostrils?”
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“When I wrote the first [Bond novel] in 1953, I wanted Bond to be an extremely dull, uninteresting man to whom things happened... when I was casting around for a name for my protagonist I thought by God, [James Bond] is the dullest name I ever heard.”
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“Hope makes a good breakfast. Eat plenty of it.”
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“Never job backwards. What might have been was a waste of time.”
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“At gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck.”
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“Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles.”
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“I'm getting very sorry for the Devil and his disciples such as the good Le Chiffre. The devil has a rotten time and I always like to be on the side of the underdog. We don't give the poor chap a chance...the Devil had no prophets to write his Ten Commandments and no team of authors to write his biography.”
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“These blithering women who thought they could do a man's work. Why the hell couldn't they stay at home and mind their pots and pans and stick to their frocks and gossip and leave men's work to the men.”
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“Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch.”
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“People do connect me with James Bond simply because I happen to like scrambled eggs and short-sleeved shirts and some of the things that James Bond does, but I certainly haven't got his guts nor his very lively appetites.”
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“And then one day when you're playing your little game you'll suddenly find yourself pinned down like a butterfly.”
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“Luck in all its moods had to be loved and not feared. Bond saw luck as a woman, to be softly wooed or brutally ravaged, never pandered to or pursued.”
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“All the greatest men are maniacs. They are possessed by a mania which drives them forward towards thier goal. The great scientists, the philosophers, the religious leaders - all maniacs. What else but a blind singlenee of purpose could have given focus to thier genius, would have kept them in the groove of purpose. Mania ... is as priceless as genius.”
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“I would stay away from him and leave him to go his own road where there would be other women, countless other women, who would probably give him as much physical pleasure as he had had with me. I wouldn’t care, or at least I told myself that I wouldn’t care, because none of them would ever own him—own any larger piece of him than I now did.”
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“She explained to me later that she must have been possessed by a subconscious desire to be raped. Well she found me in the mountains and she was raped - by me.”
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“All women love semi-rape. They love to be taken.It was his sweet brutality against my bruised body that made his act of love so piercingly wonderful.”
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“My mental hands were empty, and I felt I must do something as a counterirritant or antibody to my hysterical alarm at getting married at the age of 43.”
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“As for sex, well, I mean sex is a perfectly respectable subject as far as Shakespeare is concerned. I mean, all history is love and violence.”
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“The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning.”
-- Ian Fleming
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